The number of vehicles voluntarily recalled by automakers in South Korea reached an all-time high this year, with nearly 80 percent attributed to domestic giant Hyundai Motor Group, traffic authorities said on Sunday.
In an unexpected turn of political developments in South Korea, President Yoon Suk-yeol invoked emergency martial law on 3 December, the first time since 1979.
North Korea on Saturday lambasted a recent trilateral meeting between South Korea, the US and Japan that discussed peace in the Indo-Pacific region, deriding the talks as an "insult" to peace.
South Korea will seek to secure technologies for 100 advanced materials for the chip, biology, and other industries within the next five years, the science ministry said on Thursday, a move aimed at strengthening its own supply chains.
South Korea and Japan will hold high-level economic talks this week to boost cooperation and prepare for the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties, country's foreign ministry said on Thursday.
South Korea has warned North Korea that any nuclear attack from the latter’s side would mean an “end” of the Kim Jong Un-led regime, Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.
A sizzling heat wave covered South Korea on Wednesday as the monsoon rain came to a lull, with the state weather agency issuing a heat wave watch for most regions.
A day after the inaugural session of the US-South Korea security dialogue, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reported citing Seoul's military.
Four more bodies have been recovered from a once-flooded underground road in central South Korea, bringing the number of people dead or missing in recent downpours to 49, officials said on Monday
South Korea, the US and Japan staged a trilateral missile defence exercise in the international waters of the East Sea on Sunday, Seoul's Navy said, after North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) last week.
